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Courteney

Girls' name

Short, through Courtney

Courteney has been given to 1,129 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 170 recorded.

Babies named Courteney, 2008

1 in 393,000

Courteney over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Courteney: meaning, origin, and history

Short, through Courtney

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Courteney means

Courteney belongs to the name family reached through Courteney → Courtney. Its meaning is “short”.

Origin, language, and formation

Courteney is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Courtney.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,124 girls were recorded with the name Courteney between 1968 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 170 in 1995; its best national rank was #1,054 in 1995.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Courteney between 1980 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1980; its best national rank was #6,428 in 1980.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Courteney?

Courteney had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 393,000
10 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 189,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
272,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Courteney sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 272,458 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Courteney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Courteneys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Courteney was born before 1995 — so the typical Courteney is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
51.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,124
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 51.2% of all recorded uses (575).

Is Courteney rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1995 (170)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
56.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,054
1995

Spellings of Courteney

Courteney is not the most common spelling — Courtney is, with 88.1% against Courteney's 0.38%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Courteney is used

Across 1910–2025, Courteney was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 333,954 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Indiana1 in —
  6. 6Louisiana1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Courteney has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Courteney around the world

Where Courteney ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • Scotland
    1995–2001
    #627
    in 2001
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2000
    #248
    in 2000
  • Ireland
    1997–2003
    #655
    in 2003
  • France
    2001–2001
    #4,208
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #1,824
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1985–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Courteney by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,054
1995
Peak year
1995
170 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
1,124
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,428
1980
Peak year
1980
5 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Courteney

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Courteney

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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